The purpose of this article is to analyse the novels O cortiço (1890), by Aluísio Azevedo and O retorno (2012-2019), by Dulce Maria Cardoso, within the framework of the theories of space, place, and the ideas of centre and periphery, namely Itamar Even-Zohar’s Polysystem Theory (1990). The aim is to show how both texts constitute literary representations of the way migratory movements are associated with the cr...
Geotourism implies a relationship between tourism and science, about which it is relevant to understand the findings of the scientific literature. The general objective of this study is to analyze geotourism and its relationship with scientific tourism based on the Ibero-American scientific production. The specific aims are: (a) to identify the areas of geographic interest; (b) to verify the scientific disclosu...
This paper addresses the city of Rio de Janeiro and, more specifically, its port area in two distinct moments – the first one between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century and the second one, more recently, related to the Porto Maravilha project, developed in the context of the two major sporting events which took place in Brazil, the 2014 FIFA W...
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia.; A economia do município de Antônio Carlos tem predomínio das atividades econômicas ligadas a produção agrícola, pois possui tradição na produção de hortaliças com o uso de insumos químicos e praticada em pequenas propriedades familiares. O padrão em que está assentada...